The US government signs off on DocuSign, allowing agencies to use the e-signature technology

President Trump signs the old-fashioned way, but the federal government is starting to embrace electronic signatures. Getty Images The U.S. government may finally embrace digital signatures, now that DocuSign is officially listed as a certified federal technology provider.

The electronic contract company announced Tuesday that it is officially certified by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and its service will be listed in FedRAMP's marketplace. That makes DocuSign's service one of the first cloud-based e-signature providers to be available on FedRAMP, where many federal agencies look for digital services.

And it's already gaining government customers. The first federal agency to hop on the DocuSign bandwagon is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which will use it internally for procurement and human resources.

"For months now the FCC has shown a keen interest in bringing the benefits of eSignatures to bear on its procurement and HR processes — so that's where we're starting to help the agency's digital transformation," Barton Phillips, the VP of public sector at DocuSign, said in a statement. "Once we've shown the value there, we hope to help the FCC across a multitude of other use cases, and to expand and meet the needs of many other Federal agencies."

DocuSign already works with other government agencies below the level of the federal government. California alone uses it on a state level and in almost 400 cities. But FedRAMP authorization means it will be a lot easier for federal agencies to embrace electronic contracts for doing official business.

FedRAMP is a government-wide service which vets technology providers for security and risk. It makes it so individual agencies don't have to do their own security checks on a case-by-case basis.

Many of the top enterprise technology companies have at least some of their products FedRAMP certified, including cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Office 365.

DocuSign isn't the only cloud-based e-signature provider available through FedRAMP, but it's the first to be listed directly on the marketplace. Another provider, eSignLive, is available for use by the federal government through a third-party approved vendor, but is not listed by itself in FedRAMP.